Birdy Nam Nam

DJs making music and spinning it is one thing, but DJs making music by spinning is another level.

To ice the cake, not only is there one DJ making music by spinning but four DJs consecutively spinning to make music. Birdy Nam Nam is a group of four French DJs, each with their own turn table and unique record, who play together and make music by combining beats and sounds. To put it simply, they make original music with unoriginal content, thus earning them much acclaim and awards, including the DMC Technics 2002 World TEAM Championships. Beat that Girl Talk.

Birdy Nam Nam’s goal?

“To use the turntable player as an actual musical instrument” and they sure do it well. With such an original concept, nothing sounds quiet like it. Literally nothing. It definitely resembles electronic dance music because it utilizes artificially created sounds, but the use of drums, violins, guitars, vocals and other traditional sounds distorts this classification. Another attribute that distorts Birdy Nam Nam’s classification is the fact that each song has a different set of samples used, so each track is unique (other than Violons part 2).

One may say, “Oh, so they are DJs. This means that there is a whole bunch of scratches and squeaks.”

The most amazing characteristic of Birdy Nam Nam’s music is the fact that there are barely any clearly heard scratches or squeaks. This goes against what most DJs music is known for. Sure one might find a few stray scratches, but overall the group fades in and out extremely efficiently. Either that or the scratches blend in and sound natural.

Birdy Nam Nam’s unique sound and method are really something worth checking out. With its four DJs working together to create original music, This group is truly bringing something new to the turntable.